East of Troost: A Novel
By: Ellen Barker
4.03
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Under the guise of a starting-over story, this novel deals with subtle racism today, overt racism i…
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1. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
By: Elisabeth Tova Bailey
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey s… read more
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2. Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital
By: Eric Manheimer
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakeningsand the TV series House,Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENT… read more
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3. We Are All Welcome Here
By: Elizabeth Berg
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare tale… read more
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4. Breakfast with Buddha
By: Roland Merullo
3.67
Format: 499 pages,
The only thing certain about a journey is that it has a beginning and an end---for you never know w… read more
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5. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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- fiction
6. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
7. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By: David von Drehle
4.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more
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8. Rules for Visiting
By: Jessica Francis Kane
3.73
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on… read more
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- fiction
"I'm aware not everyone feels the way I do about trees, but I have no idea why not."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"Consider the word visit. It’s from the Old French visiter, which meant “to inspect, examine, or afflict."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"Are we a family damaged beyond repair? I don't know. I do believe in the power of words and stories to make sense of things."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"She was the kind of person who had multiple copies of the books she loved most. That way, she said, she could always give one away."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
9. Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s
By: Gary Gulman
4.14
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth gr… read more
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10. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
11. Crow Mary
By: Kathleen Grissom
4.33
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more
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- historical fiction
12. All In: An Autobiography
By: Billie Jean King
4.32
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of a champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant te… read more
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13. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
By: Frank Figliuzzi
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more
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14. The Storm We Made
By: Vanessa Chan
3.87
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668015148. A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unl… read more
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- historical fiction
15. The Madstone
By: Elizabeth Crook
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, … read more
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- historical fiction
"Your mother leaned her head on my shoulder. I hardly breathed for having it there. I had certainly never felt so alive and cozy whilst nearly frozen to death."-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every o…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"We had one horse, one mule, and a wagon. We had Horhay with his limp arm and his long past, and Dickie with his hopes for the necklace now dashed and turned to dread of its curse, and me with my ache…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"Had we been in town amongst people, then we might have been merely interested at the news of having a cursed item in our possession. But out in the midst of no place, shielded by only a scanty wall o…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
16. The Saints of Swallow Hill
By: Donna Everhart
4.12
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
It takes courage to save yourself... In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners l… read more
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- historical fiction
17. Wolf at the Table
By: Adam Rapp
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a … read more
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- historical fiction
18. What We Kept to Ourselves
By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim
3.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Story of Mina Lee retu… read more
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- historical fiction
19. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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- fiction
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
20. The Turtle House
By: Amanda Churchill
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire … read more
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- historical fiction
21. The Last Year of the War
By: Susan Meissner
4.21
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its r… read more
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- historical fiction
"You don't have to say everything you're thinking, Elise," he said."-Susan Meissner, The Last Year of the War
"Maybe being brave is different from being unafraid. If you're not afraid, what is there to be brave about?"-Susan Meissner, The Last Year of the War
"*Nice* was a word that I'd not been able to say in such a long time, and it encompassed so much in that moment. It truly did. *Nice* is a throwaway word until it's not."-Susan Meissner, The Last Year of the War
". . . Wars begin and wars end. There will be peace again. We only need to hold on to who we are, deep within, so that we'll recognize ourselves on the other side when it's over."-Susan Meissner, The Last Year of the War
22. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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23. How to be Remembered
By: Michael Thompson
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without t… read more
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24. Good Eggs
By: Rebecca Hardiman
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and heartfelt debut novel following three generations of a boisterous Irish family whos… read more
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- fiction
"He does not want to reflect on whether they’re confusing love with loyalty at this point, or that the children who have been the glue are devolving into its antidote, or, and this is too cynical, he …"-Rebecca Hardiman, Good Eggs
25. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
By: Julie Satow
4.06
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
A glittering, glamorous portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visio… read more
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26. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
27. Watching the Detectives (The Country Club Murders, #5)
By: Julie Mulhern
4.37
Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition
Ellison Russell wanted a decorator, not a corpse. Too bad she finds Mrs. White in the study killed … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"People accord you exactly the amount of respect you accord yourself."-Julie Mulhern, Watching the Detectives (The Country Club Murders, #5)
28. East of Troost: A Novel
By: Ellen Barker
4.03
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Under the guise of a starting-over story, this novel deals with subtle racism today, overt racism i… read more
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29. The Booklover's Library
By: Madeline Martin
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of the books that… read more
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- historical fiction
30. Madwoman
By: Chelsea Bieker
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themse… read more
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31. Mary Wickes: I Know I've Seen That Face Before
By: Steve Taravella
3.71
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Moviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotc… read more
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